Thank You...

Perhaps the most easily forgotten trait of kindness is appreciation, since we have been taught to do it so often that we just take it for granted. Saying a simple "thank you" takes less than 10 seconds to do, but its impact can have long lasting effects. We never know how much better a simple phrase will make someone feel.

I Got Started -

"I got started!" The first step is always the hardest, and celebrating it is something we all do too little of. Congratulate yourself on getting started--every step from here will be easier. - Sujan Patel, Inc. Magazine

Meetings...

Meetings tend to break time into "before" and "after". Get rid of those meetings and people suddenly have a good stretch of time to immerse themselves in their work. - Jason Fried

What you say...

Always be careful what you say. You can always say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said. - F.B. Newman

The status quo...

Being successful often means disrupting the status quo.

Give them a chance at the moon...

The way to keep good people is to give them a chance at the moon.
It's what Peter Diamandis calls a "moon shot," a goal so large it creates a gravity to draw people to it and keep them in its orbit. Besides, challenge only scares off the people that you need to scare off. - Thomas Koulopoulos, Inc. magazine

Great success...

I applied to be a Rhodes Scholar twice and was turned down. How different my life would have been. Sometimes failures lead to great success. - Buzz Aldrin